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Dams and control works, Volume 2, Part 4

A description of representative storage and diversion dams and high-pressure reservoir outlet works constructed by the Bureau of Reclamtion.

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Page 131Other materials, such as excavation for the stilling basin and from the first 10
stations of the river channel enlargement, were used in the gravel and cobble fill.
The excavation for the spillway inlet was suitable for use in the main
embankment.

Page 141Provision is being made for the addition of a fourth basin if found necessary when
the ultimate diversion of 15,000 second-feet is reached. Effluent channels
leading to the All-American Canal will be built between basins and at both ends
of the ...

Page 170Counterweights to reduce externally applied hoisting forces are housed in slots
in the 24-inch partition walls which separate the gates. In front of the headgates
and 4 feet lower than the gate sills is a concrete silt basin, about 70 by 70 feet in ...